The 25-year-old has picked up a $3,000 cash prize and will appear in photo shoots in some of the nation's most popular glossy magazines in the coming months.

"Natasha has a really good quality and texture to her hair which comes from lots of love and attention. She has a beautiful shade of blonde and a great length allowing her to style it in a number of different ways. We also noticed that Natasha is passionate about hair and hair care, which can be seen in the health and maintenance of her blonde locks," Schwarzkopf’s National Technical Educator and competition judge Grant Withnell said.

The competition, now in its fourth year, is based on public and technical votes.

According to Mr Withnell, 2013 is the year of curly hair.

"This year in particular we saw a surge in votes for curly hair, both natural and styled."

Winner of Australia’s Most Beautiful Hair competition, Canberra's own Natasha Roberts (second from left) with Schwarzkopf’s National Technical Educator Grant Withnell and other finalists.

While Kevin and Tony keep battling away for our votes on September 7, many people have already cast their ballots at pre-poll centres, including many around the world.

I voted overnight in Madrid, where the experience is not quite the same as back home.

For a start, there was no sausage sizzle (and even more sadly there wasn't any chorizo or jamon either). You also had to cross the city instead of going to your neighborhood school and then go through an array of security to have your democratic say.

Twice we had to provide our passports and twice we had to go through metal detectors and have our bags scanned. Cameras and any transmitting devices had to be turned off and handed over to a very serious security guard before we even got to the polling place on the 24th floor, and there were stern words if you tried a quick snap (hence no photos to go with this post).

But once inside it's all much the same. There's a familiar Aussie accent explaining how you have to number the ballots, a little cardboard screen and the standard ballot box. Just like home, only thousands of miles away and with much more security (and with fewer people thrusting how-to-vote cards at you).

Attorney-General Simon Corbell announced the appointment of John Boersig as the newest boss of the legal service for disadvantaged Canberrans on Tuesday.

Dr Boersig replaces Andrew Crockett who will retire in November after seven years in the role.

Dr Boersig has vast experience in law, and has worked as an assistant secretary in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, as a senior lecturer in law, and as an advocate with the Aboriginal Legal Service of NSW.

8:49am on 28 Aug 2013

Look, up in the sky! It’s a hamburger! It’s a sub!

Actually, it was Skydive Canberra’s chief instructor Curtis Morton undertaking a world first, skydiving while eating a kebab.

On Tuesday morning, Mr Morton jumped out of a plane and proceeded to eat a chicken kebab after he released his parachute.

Mr Morton was approached by Zous Chaloner, the owner of Ali Baba in Erindale, to eat one of his kebabs after Mr Chaloner saw him wearing a Skydive Canberra shirt in his restaurant.

Curtis Morton is well known in the Australian skydiving community for travelling around the country instructing and completing over 8,000 jumps.

The territory's Commissioner for Public Administration says that a smaller, more nimble organization that is closer to its community than the lumbering federal bureaucracy could be attractive to Commonwealth public servants who find themselves dumped by an incoming Coalition government.

Commissioner Andrew Kefford conceded that the territory could not match the salaries available in the Commonwealth set-up, but said that the ACT's 20,000-strong bureaucracy offered other less tangible benefits.

A Canberra emergency medicine specialist on Tuesday urged medical professionals and paramedics to be on alert for a potential spike in overdoses from a cheap synthetic drug linked to the death of a Sydney teenager.

Henry Kwan, 17, jumped off a third-floor balcony in June after taking an NBOMe-class drug which had LSD-type effects.

Mr Hockey will reportedly use his National Press Club debate with Treasurer Chris Bowen to announce a number of savings, including the independent Parliamentary Budget Office's costing of Tony Abbott's controversial paid parental leave scheme.

7:53am on 28 Aug 2013

The Cerebral Palsy Alliance is having a bad week, with the not-for-profit’s Spence office burgled twice in two days.

The Alliance is appealing for donations for their major fundraiser in two weeks, after their auction items were among the valuables stolen.